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RE: I agree with what you are saying....

Posted by jamesgarvin (A) on June 18, 2007 at 14:34:24

In Reply to: I agree with what you are saying.... posted by BJordan on June 17, 2007 at 19:19:59:

I think people tend to confuse "leading men" and "character actors." I believe it was Philip Seymour Hoffman who described a leading actor as an actor who basically played the same role over and over, whereas a character actor as an actor who plays different characters in different films.

Johnny Depp, who I think is a great actor, is a character actor, not a leading man. Compare him with Bogart, Cooper, Stewart, et al. They basically played the same type of character over and over. Sure, they changed scenery, wore different clothes, but they played essentially the same people over and over. Ever see Bogart, Cooper, Stewart play the range of different personalities that Depp has played over the course of his still developing career?

Leading men today? Samuel Jackson, Denzel Washington, Mel Gibson, Cruise, Arnold (when he made films). Put Bogart or Cooper alone in a room with Jackson, I venture to guess that Bogart or Cooper ain't walking out. Maybe The Duke would.

Which brings me to another story I watched Kirk Douglas tell. He was at a party with John Wayne, and Wayne approached him while Douglas was on a balcony having a drink. Douglas had just made a film, I do not recall which one, in which his character cried during the course of the film. Wayne told him that actors like them cannot cry or show such sissy emotion on film. Think that "toughness" made Duke a better actor?

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